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For 7,964 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 44% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.9 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 64
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Argylle
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,240 out of 7964
  2. Mixed: 1,556 out of 7964
  3. Negative: 1,168 out of 7964
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  1. The Great Buck Howard
    This is an old man's movie, without an old man's experience. Despite McGinly's stated affection for Kreskin (the movie ends with a written appreciation of him), there's nothing personal about it. It's the movie equivalent of handing us a business card.
  2. Valentino: The Last Emperor
    The decadence is obvious. But true to the Valentino prerogative, it's beautiful - sad, too: a dream life moving into the unknown.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Sunshine Cleaning
    An intelligent, often touching, sometimes pedestrian drama.
    • 7 Metascore
    • 25 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Miss March
    A sex comedy that appears to have been made by people who've never actually had sex.
  5. The Last House on the Left
    Like the current hit "Taken," Last House 2009 packs a vicarious jolt that might feel cathartic to certain moviegoers.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    The Edge of Love
    A "great poet" movie, the poet in this case being Dylan Thomas, and it's utter bollocks.
  7. Race to Witch Mountain
    This is not a movie. It's a coming attraction for a theme park.
  8. Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
    While most of the scenes in Tony Stone’s peculiar Middle Ages art project look like a homemade educational reenactment, the film is actually more involving than it should be.
  9. Tokyo Sonata
    Tokyo Sonata, in so many senses, is about an allergic reaction to the very idea of what it means to be Japanese. The characters misplace their belief in etiquette, politesse, dignity, and propriety - or they struggle to maintain it.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Watchmen
    The best moments in Watchmen, then, work as delirious music-videos.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Phoebe in Wonderland
    Phoebe in Wonderland gradually loses its grip on tone and believability, climaxing with a show-must-go-on moment that's just plain silly. Thankfully, Barnz knows exactly where to end his film: on the face of a girl, and an actress, at the crossroads.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Everlasting Moments
    Quiet, observant, and intensely moving whenever Heiskanen is on screen, and it has a valedictory sweep that feels like a summing up.
  13. Fados
    As a production, Fados is pretty with its reflected surfaces and many projected images. But at times it hurts for the bite and texture of life outside that studio. For all the dolorous singing about and shots of streets, it'd be nice to hit one.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Tokyo!
    If you've seen "Paris, je t'aime" or "New York Stories," you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here. Go in expecting minor pleasures and you'll be fine.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 50 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    12
    The new film's not only almost double the length of the original, it's four times as ambitious - a sprawling, surrealist, ultimately disturbing portrait of a society lurching uncertainly toward democracy. What's really on trial in this movie? Just the Russian soul.
  16. Crossing Over
    If Crossing Over is less self-congratulatory than "Crash" about confronting its designated problem, it's just as inept at dramatizing the complex ways that problem unites and divides us. Here every cause is something you can wear around your neck.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Echelon Conspiracy
    There's nothing in Echelon Conspiracy as suspenseful or entertaining as your average episode of "24."
    • 45 Metascore
    • 38 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience
    Its swooping 3-D visuals let fans briefly feel they can touch a group that barely exists behind a wall of beefy security men.
    • 17 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
    This is a movie for the overcaffeinated, undereducated teenager in all of us.
  20. Examined Life
    Over the course of the film's 88-minutes, Taylor cuts away to what's happening around her subjects (the unexamined life, I suppose). Perhaps she's attempting to make connections the thinkers don't.
  21. Madea Goes to Jail
    There is, however, Viola Davis, who might win an Oscar tomorrow for her one scene in "Doubt." Her part here - a minister combing the street for crack-whores to rescue - is about three times as large.
  22. Fired Up!
    Fired Up feels like everybody's first time doing anything - writing, acting, directing, cheerleading.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 88 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Katyn
    A history lesson for a country and a people forced to forget at gunpoint.
  24. Gomorrah
    Both a staggering realist thriller and a jeremiad.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Two Lovers
    The storytelling here is at times as awkward as its hero, and since it is a Gray film Two Lovers takes itself dreadfully seriously. Yet it's one of the few movies I've seen recently that improves on a second viewing, in part because Phoenix does such remarkably subtle work.
  26. Friday the 13th
    The movie might have worked if it winked more - or if it played things completely straight.
  27. Under the Sea 3D
    It's all a treat to behold, and, at least where the turtle and the jellyfish are concerned, it's transcendently beautiful, too. I just wish there was more of it.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    Coraline
    "The Corpse Bride" with teeth, Bruno Bettelheim retooled for the multiplex, a nightmare of daft and creative consequence. I really liked it.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 63 Reviewed by
      Ty Burr
    He's Just Not That Into You
    Good comfort food for most of its running time, thanks to a cast of attractive, unchallenging pros and Ken Kwapis's smooth direction.
  30. The Pink Panther 2
    Playing Clouseau's exasperated boss, Cleese rams his head into a wall minutes into the action. That's a powerful image, insofar as his headache was mine.
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